What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

No man will ever bring out the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

Impossible is just an opinion.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.

I’m not perfect. And who knows how many times I’ve fallen short. We all fall short. That’s the amazing thing about the grace of God.

It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

Who works with all the strength he can Shall never die in debt to man.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.